Bible (Berean Standard)/Obadiah

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The Destruction of Edom

(Jeremiah 49:7–22)

This is the vision of Obadiah:


 * This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom—


 * We have heard a message from the LORD;
 * an envoy has been sent among the nations
 * to say, “Rise up,
 * and let us go to battle against her!”—


 * “Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
 * you will be deeply despised.
 * The pride of your heart has deceived you,
 * O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks
 * whose habitation is the heights,
 * who say in your heart,
 * ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
 * Though you soar like the eagle
 * and make your nest among the stars,
 * even from there I will bring you down,”

declares the LORD.
 * “If thieves came to you,
 * if robbers by night—
 * oh, how you will be ruined—
 * would they not steal only what they wanted?
 * If grape gatherers came to you,
 * would they not leave some gleanings?
 * But how Esau will be pillaged,
 * his hidden treasures sought out!
 * All the men allied with you
 * will drive you to the border;
 * the men at peace with you
 * will deceive and overpower you.
 * Those who eat your bread
 * will set a trap for you
 * without your awareness of it.
 * In that day, declares the LORD,
 * will I not destroy the wise men of Edom
 * and the men of understanding
 * in the mountains of Esau?
 * Then your mighty men, O Teman,
 * will be terrified,
 * so that everyone in the mountains of Esau
 * will be cut down in the slaughter.


 * Because of the violence against your brother Jacob,
 * you will be covered with shame
 * and cut off forever.
 * On the day you stood aloof
 * while strangers carried off his wealth
 * and foreigners entered his gate
 * and cast lots for Jerusalem,
 * you were just like one of them.
 * But you should not gloat in that day,
 * your brother’s day of misfortune,
 * nor rejoice over the people of Judah
 * in the day of their destruction,
 * nor boast proudly
 * in the day of their distress.
 * You should not enter the gate of My people
 * in the day of their disaster,
 * nor gloat over their affliction
 * in the day of their disaster,
 * nor loot their wealth
 * in the day of their disaster.
 * Nor should you stand at the crossroads
 * to cut off their fugitives,
 * nor deliver up their survivors
 * in the day of their distress.

The Deliverance of Israel


 * For the Day of the LORD is near
 * for all the nations.
 * As you have done, it will be done to you;
 * your recompense will return upon your own head.
 * For as you drank on My holy mountain,
 * so all the nations will drink continually.
 * They will drink and gulp it down;
 * they will be as if they had never existed.
 * But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance,
 * and it will be holy,
 * and the house of Jacob
 * will reclaim their possession.
 * Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,
 * and the house of Joseph a burning flame;
 * but the house of Esau will be stubble—
 * Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it.
 * Therefore no survivor will remain
 * from the house of Esau.”

For the LORD has spoken.
 * Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau;
 * those from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines.
 * They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,
 * and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
 * And the exiles of this host of the Israelites
 * will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath;
 * and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
 * will possess the cities of the Negev.
 * The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion
 * to rule over the mountains of Esau.


 * And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.